No Nuggets player needs the All-Star break more than guard Randy Foye. He simply gutted out the last two games on the team’s recent road trip, and probably shouldn’t have been playing in Minnesota on Wednesday night due to a bad ankle injury in addition to a hamstring ailment.

His hope is he didn’t do any damage that would cause him to miss any games after the four-day break. But on a team with no point guards, that desperately needed someone to handle the basketball, he played through his injuries instead of sitting.

“I’m extremely banged up,” Foye said. “It started in the New York game, where I tweaked my hamstring and then…it seemed like every game, it’s the first time this year where every game something happened to me.”

Foye was so hobbled, he said “making simple moves, not even like jumping, but just making cuts and just twisting my ankle or my hamstring feeling like it’s about to pull. The break, it’s time to rest.”

He exited the Minnesota game concerned about a possible pinched nerve that caused him to feel a sharp pain from the side of his leg down to the back of his ankle after taking a hit during the game.

Asked whether he felt he could come back healthy after the break, Foye said “I’m not even sure. I told them it was really sore, but I was going to give it a try. And just went out there and it was extremely painful.

“I’m just going to stay positive, continue to try to work through it. But it was important.”